(May 23, 2018 at 11:51 am)CapnAwesome Wrote:(May 20, 2018 at 9:23 pm)The Industrial Atheist Wrote: Who is the freeloader: the working poor on food stamps — or corporations that don’t pay them enough?
Sen. Sherrod Brown has a plan to tax corporations that don’t pay their workers enough.
By Dylan Scott@dylanlscott[email protected] May 18, 2018, 1:30pm EDT
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Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) prefers a “corporate freeloader” to work requirements for food stamps. Pete Marovich/Getty Images
Republicans in Congress just failed to pass a bill that would impose harsher work requirements for federal food stamps as part of the so-called farm bill, but there’s no sign they’re giving up on the idea anytime soon. Their argument is that, particularly with the Great Recession behind us, poorer Americans could and should be doing more to get into the workforce and off federal assistance.
The GOP’s plan raises all sorts of bigger questions, but an alternative plan by Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) asks a pretty straightforward one: Is the problem that people aren’t working enough? Or is it that they don’t receive a high enough wage or generous enough benefits from their employer?
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/...rrod-brown
So if they raised the minimum wage to 15$, how much cuts in food stamps would you be in favor of?
Canada and most of western Europe doesn't have food stamps.
The two things aren't related. Also the minimum wage actually helps the economy. It helps the wealthy businessmen who are against it, because people actually have surplus funds to buy their product.
If you think these things are related, please explain how.
